National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) – Vision and Eye Health Surveillance

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) United States Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Vision & Eye Health

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Project Citation: 

United States Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Vision & Eye Health. National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) – Vision and Eye Health Surveillance. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2026-01-17. https://doi.org/10.3886/E244305V1

Project Description

Project Title:  View help for Project Title National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) – Vision and Eye Health Surveillance
Summary:  View help for Summary 2016-17 merged. This dataset is a de-identified summary table of vision and eye health data indicators from the National Survye of Chilrens Health (NSCH), stratified by all available combinations of age group, race/ethnicity, sex, risk factor and state. NSCH is a telephone survey conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics at CDC (currently conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau) that examines the physical and emotional health of children 0-17 years of age. Approximate sample size is 95,000 over two rounds of data collection. Data were suppressed for cell sizes less than 30 persons, or where the relative standard error more than 30% of the mean. Detailed information on VEHSS NSCH analyses can be found on the VEHSS NSCH webpage (cdc.gov/visionhealth/vehss/data/national-surveys/national-survey-of-childrens-health.html). Additional information about NSCH can be found on the NSCH website (http://childhealthdata.org/learn/NSCH). The VEHSS NSCH dataset was last updated in November 2019. Read less
Original Distribution URL:  View help for Original Distribution URL https://data.cdc.gov/Vision-Eye-Health/National-Survey-of-Children-s-Health-NSCH-Vision-a/de4p-4g3k/about_data

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms nsch; visual function; vision impairment; glasses; contact lenses
Collection Notes:  View help for Collection Notes (Downloaded 1/16/2026)


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